651,442,176 gallons of rain fell in Oak Park

Unofficial totals say Oak Park had the most rain of any Chicago-area community over the 18-hour period between 6 p.m. Friday and noon Saturday. Wednesday Journal scientists have been hard at work crunching numbers to figure out just how much rain really fell.

Assuming the 8.33 inches of rain fell evenly over Oak Park's 4.5 square miles during those 18 hours we made these calcuations.